Lorna's family forest

Christan Manson¹

(30 December 1759 - before 1766)

Father

David Manson¹ (May 1724 - aft. 1771)

Mother

Helen J Miller¹ (bef. 1735 - aft. 1771)

Relationship

5th great-aunt of Lorna Henderson

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Christan Manson was born Lynegar, Par. of Watten, CAI, SCT

.² She was christened on 30 Dec 1759 Watten, Par. of Watten, CAI, SCT

; Entry reads: Dec 20, 1759, David Manson Lynegar and Helen Miller spouse, a daughter Christian, Wit: Alexander Calder, - and Donald McAllan Northdun.^1,2
Christan Manson was estimated to have died bef. 1766 ?Par. of Watten, CAI, SCT, (because of the chr. of the second Christian.)¹

Charts

MANSON

Last Edited

26 Dec 2003

Citations

Letter, Carole MELLOR to Lorna Henderson, Feb 1994.
P K Bain, "EM BAIN, Pat Dunedin," e-mail to L McIntosh, MANSON/MILLER baptisms ex LDS film 0101974 Watten Parochial Registers, Dist 42, baptisms and marriages 1714-1854, rcvd Aug 2003.

E. & O. E. Some/most parish records are rather hard to read and names, places hard to interpret, particularly if you are unfamiliar with an area.

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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

— Abraham Lincoln
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

— Cary Grant
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

— E. B. White
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

— e. e. cummings
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

— Saint Augustine
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

— Mark Twain
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

— Henry David Thoreau
If two things look the same, look for differences. If they look different, look for similarities.

— John Cardinal
In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

— Anonymous
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

— John Adams
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

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History - what never happened described by someone who wasn't there

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What's a "trice"? It's like a jiffy but with three wheels

— Last of the Summer Wine
Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

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.. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

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The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

— Proust
So just as it is not the desire to become famous but the habit of being laborious that enables us to produce a finished work, so it is not the activity of the present moment but wise reflexions from the past that help us to safeguard the future

— Proust "Within the Budding Grove"
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

— William J. H. Boetcker
Only a genealogist thinks taking a step backwards is progress

— Lorna
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

— George Bernard Shaw
A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

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Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

— Anon
The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

— Tony Cook "The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs"
All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

— Thomas Carlyle "The Hero as Man of Letters"

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Christan Manson

Christan Manson1

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Citations

Christan Manson¹